Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
After a storm comes a calm.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
I do not so much rejoice that God hath made me to be a Queen, as to be a Queen over so thankful a people.
Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.